The best we can do is ask you—beg you, more like it—to find out where you can either watch or get a hold of this fantastic stuff on video and DVD and devour as much as you can!

All in all, France's new crop of young directors has more than lived up to the legacy of their artistic forebears in the medium.

Filmophile's Lexicon

Cinéma du look is a catchword for the postmodern films of Jean-Jacques Beineix, Luc Besson, and other '80s directors who focused on the visual image per se as the overall "message" of film.

Filmophile's Lexicon

Cinéma beur refers to a new wave of naturalistic films directed by and featuring the lives of young North Africans in France; Rachid Bouchareb's Cheb (1990) and Mehdi Charef's Le Thé au harem d'Archimède (1986) are among the most influential examples of this recent genre.